Jinxed!
Swipe to leap between lanes as escalating bad omens — black cats, ladders, broken mirrors, open umbrellas — barrel down on your walking bad-luck charm.
Auto-scrolling dodge lane runner where every omen that whiffs boosts a curse meter, and getting hit unleashes a screen-shattering crack that resets the streak.
Swipe up/down to swap lanes; tap to throw salt (briefly clears the lane).
Superstitious omen parade — cartoon crows, cracks in mirrors, ladders across the road, salt-shaker power-ups — riding the cursed-charm hook of the demo.
The itch demo leans hard on the 'bad luck charm' one-liner; superstitions and cursed-co-runner games are cheap viral clips on short-form.
Catchy 'Jinxed!' one-liner and superstition motifs are relatable, but the bad-luck-charm premise is a thin novelty layer over a stock lane runner.TV Tropes page shows 'bad luck charm' is a well-worn trope, not a fresh angle ↗
Lane-runner clips no longer break out on short-form (#endlessrunnergame tag is low-volume) and screen-shatter effects are common in mobile ads.Only 2.1K views on the endless runner game tag — niche virality ↗Hypercasual runner content is mostly dev tutorials, not viral gameplay ↗
Three-lane auto-runner with swipe + tap is a heavily templated Unity/asset-store mechanic; trivial to prototype.Itch.io is flooded with free hypercasual runner templates and clones ↗
Hypercasual lane runners monetize reliably via interstitials and rewarded revives; H1 2025 top 100 hypercasual titles pulled $345M IAP plus heavy ad revenue.H1 2025 hypercasual top 100 = 2.4B downloads and $345M IAP, confirming strong category monetization ↗
The mechanic is one of the most cloned in mobile (Subway Surfers and its dozens of imitators since 2012); superstition theme adds only a thin cosmetic differentiation.Subway Surfers itself has dozens of themed reskins, showing how saturated the lane-swap niche is ↗Subway Surfers has dominated the 3-lane runner lane since 2012, a 13-year head start ↗